GRA 3115 International Entrepreneurship
GRA 3115 International Entrepreneurship
International Entrepreneurship as a topic is the combination of entrepreneurship and international business strategy, focussing innovative companies that aim at taking positions in international industries and markets. Each class will concentrate on a selected area of innovation and economic growth, such as "new energy", "digital healthcare" or "recycling industries". The teaching is based on teamwork and investigations into real business cases to analyze business models, industrial and market dynamics and scaling strategies.
The course is an elective and is offered as an intensive course in the third semester.
- Students should know the core theories of INV (international new ventures), and core domains of IB (International Business)
- Students should know core mechanisms of how to build an international organization, including theories on negotiation, project management and network building
- Students should know basic theory of IPR and have gained insights into CSR
- Students should be able to search and acquire information and knowledge from available sources to analyze an international entrepreneurship business case in reasonable depth, including proposing a business developement plan addressing business strategy, business model, marketing, risk, financial and other relevant matters.
- Students should be able to professionally present and discuss an international business case analysis both orally and in writing using concepts, models and theories from entrepreneurship and strategy literature.
- Students should be able to use their knowledge and skills to analyze real world business cases and to realistically assess opportunities and challenges represented by venturing abroad.
- Students should be able to draw on insights from theory to analyze and to reflect on the appropriateness of observed strategies and business models chosen by international ventures.
The course content includes:
- International Entrepreneurship: Definition and understanding of area of practice and research
- International innovation policies relevant to selected area of innovation and industrial development
- Business models and industrial stractures in selected industries
- International scaling strategies, marketing, organizing, risk management and financing
- Innovation in business networks and alliances
The course will consist of lectures, real world case investigations and analysis, group work, supervision and discussions. Classroom lectures will be 36 hours.
- The class will be collectively working on business cases within a selected area of innovation, industrial development and change.
- The students will be organized in teams to conduct investigations into selected industries and business cases. These serve as the substance matter of the teaching, of student group presentations in class and of written exams.
- The work in class will be a combination of lectures on strategy and entrepreneurship topics, concepts and analytcal models, and presentations and discussions of investigated business cases in several rounds as investigations go deeper into each of the selected cases.
Please note that while attendance is not compulsory in all courses, it is the student’s own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class.
All parts of the assessment must be passed in order to get a grade in the course.
The examination for this course has been changed from autumn 2023. It is not possible to resit the old version of the examination.
All courses in the Masters programme will assume that students have fulfilled the admission requirements for the programme. In addition, courses in second, third and/or fourth semester can have specific prerequisites and will assume that students have followed normal study progression. For double degree and exchange students, please note that equivalent courses are accepted.
Disclaimer
Deviations in teaching and exams may occur if external conditions or unforeseen events call for this.
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Submission PDF Exam/hand-in semester: First Semester Weight: 60 Grouping: Group (2 - 4) Duration: 1 Semester(s) Comment: Team based report Exam code: GRA 31152 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Portfolio Assessment PDF Exam/hand-in semester: First Semester Weight: 40 Grouping: Individual Duration: 5 Week(s) Comment: This exam is organized as a portfolio assessment. Each student writes 2 reports of approximately 5 pages based on tasks they do in and between lectures. Results from these reports must be presented orally in class with PPT presentations. The class is divided so half of the students have submissions/presentations after weeks 2 and 4, the other half after weeks 3 and 5. The final submission for grading should include both reports and the PPT presentations. Exam code: GRA 31153 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
|---|---|---|
Teaching | 36 Hour(s) | Teaching on campus and digitally |
Prepare for teaching | 25 Hour(s) | |
Student's own work with learning resources | 89 Hour(s) | |
Group work / Assignments | 10 Hour(s) | |
Feedback activities and counselling | 2 Hour(s) | |
Examination | 10 Hour(s) |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 6 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload of at least 160 hours.